Search Results: Authors starting with K from Asia Bookroom

Cambridge, Massachusetts.: Harvard University Press.. 1983.. Map, black and white photographic and line illustrations, x + 142pp, appendix, index, edges little foxed, dustjacket shelf worn with sunned spine. .

Cambridge, Massachusetts.: Harvard University Press.. 1983.. Map, black and white photographic and line illustrations, x + 142pp, appendix, index, edges little foxed, dustjacket shelf worn with sunned spine, a good hardback copy. .

京都. [Kyoto].: 風月庄衛門. [Fugetu Shoemon].. Meiji 20 [1887].. Handcoloured copper engraved pictorial folding map, 47.5 x 71cm, 41colour illustrations border the map, distance and site charts. Folds into card covers measuring 16.2 x 17.2cm. An attractive map. This charming pictorial map of Osaka from 1887 features the central 4 wards of Osaka City (East, West, North and South Wards in different colours) and the surrounding area with place names and some landmarks. 41 small illustrated panels of major sites surround the map. Distances from Korai Bridge as the city's central point are recorded in a chart. Another chart lists famous attractions of Osaka city. Legend includes schools, temples, shrines, and railway lines. Osaka is renowned for its rivers and canals and used to be known as the capital of waterways before many were filled in to build roads and highways. This map shows Osaka at a time when the numerous rivers and canals were still… Read More

London.: Asia Publishing House.. 1962.. x + 142pp, dustjacket worn extremities with little loss, covers patchily faded, inscription front free endpaper, some pencilling throughout, still a sound copy. Looks at the factors which unite India, a "common humanity" which has developed despite religious, linguistic and cultural diversity. .

Surabaja.: Panjebar Semangat.. (Circa1950).. Black & white photographic illustrations, 32pp. Text in Indonesian. .

India: Vision Books Pvt.Ltd ,India. 2007. 232pp, appendices, bibliography, index, very good in dustjacket with very slightly faded spine. .

Bangkok.: Orchid Press.. Reprint.. 1998.. Endpaper and in text maps, in text and fold out black and white line illustrations, covers trifle shelf worn, a very good copy. 19 x 13.4cm. .

Tokyo: Yushodo.. Number 124 of a limited edition of 300 copies.. 1977.. Two volumes. Title pages in red and black. 36 x 22.6cm. Volume I: 4 double page maps (2 folding), 18 engravings, [7], lii, 391, [1]pp and 4 page explanation of plates. Volume II: 45 maps and plates, [2], 393 - 612pp, 6 page index, 75 page appendix to the History of Japan, 11 page second appendix and a 4 page explanation of plates. Bound in half leather, marbled paper boards, in cloth covered slipcase. Book plate of a prior owner preliminary leaf in each volume, very light sunning on spines, cloth slipcase rubbed with minor loss along two edges, otherwise an excellent copy. A handsome limited edition facsimile of this classic work on Japan published to the 250th year anniversary of the publication of the first English edition of Kaempfer's The History of Japan was publshed. The comprehensive coverage given in this early authoritative account of Japan, covering as it does so many aspects of the country including history,… Read More

Stuttgart.: Brockhaus.. 1982.. 2 volumes. Volume I: Folding map, lxviii + 310pp. Volume II: 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, 1 folding plate, black and white full page plates, [8] + 478pp. Cloth, leather title labels spine, quarto. Small mark cloth upper cover, lettering on upper cover a little worn, a very good set. Facsimile of the first German edition. .

Bangkok.: Orchid Press.. Reprint.. 1998.. Endpaper and in text maps, in text and fold out black and white photographic and line illustrations, covers and slip case very good condition, a very good copy. .

London.: Hali Publications.. 1998.. Colour map, 160 photographic colour illustrations and 10 in black & white. photographic illustrations, 192pp, appendices, notes, index, beautiful copy in dustjacket. 34 x 23.5cm A beautifully illustrated reference work. .

New York.: Weatherhill.. 1973.. Translated & adapted with an intro by Christine Guth. Colour and black and white illustrations, 143pp, index, bibliography, glossary, little worn price-clipped dustjacket mended on reverse by prior owner, still a good hardback copy. 23.5 x 19cm. "Shinto painting and sculpture, tinged by Buddhist stylistics and theological traits, is primarily composed of works illustrating the correspondences between the deities of the two. These works, in particular those of the peak period of amalgamation from the late twelfth centuries, are presented here in their religious setting - at, for example, the great shrine complexes of Kasuga and Hachiman. It is a focus the author uses with skill to give the reader a lucid introduction to a little-known facet of Japanese art, as well as insight into the phenomenon of cultural adaptation and absorption so characteristic of Japan throughout its history." Publisher's description. .

Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2012.. 235pp, bibliography, index, paperback. As Indonesia's leading Muslim politician in the second half of the 20th century, Mohammad Natsir (1908-1993) went from heading the country's first post-independence government and largest Islamic political party to spending years in rebellion and in prison. After initially welcoming Soekarno's overthrow in 1965, he became one of the most outspoken critics of the successor Suharto government's increasingly autocratic rule. Natsir's copious writings stretch from his student days in the late colonial period, when his debates with Soekarno over the character of Indonesian nationalism first attracted public attention, to the years immediately preceding his death when his trenchant criticisms brought him the enmity of the Suharto regime. They reveal a man struggling to harmonize his deep Islamic faith with his equally firm belief in national independence and democracy. Drawing from a wide range of materials, including these writings and… Read More

Ithaca.: Cornell University Press.. Seventh printing.. 1966.. Maps, xii + 490pp, index, some pencilling throughout, cellotape stains on endpapers, very good hardback copy. .

Ithaca.: Cornell University Press.. Reprint.. 1959.. Maps, xii + 490pp, index, lovely sound and clean copy. 23.5x 15cm. .

London.: RoutledgeCurzon.. 2003.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxii + 350pp, notes, index. A very good paperback copy. "...offers a unique perspective on American involvement in Southeast Asia...A biting critique of postwar American policy towards the area..." (Publisher's description). .

Ithaca.: Cornell University Press.. Reprint.. 1959.. Maps, xii + 490pp, index, a prior owner's details on half titlepage, lettering on spine worn with loss. 23.5x 15cm .

Wiesbaden.: Otto Harrassowitz.. 1965.. 307pp, paperback. Slight shelf wear and browning to spine, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, otherwise a good copy. German language guide to Indonesian language grammar. .

Wiesbaden.: Otto Harrassowitz.. 1956.. 307pp, paperback. Slight shelfwear and browning covers, ink inscription upper cover, otherwise good copy from the library of Professor C. Skinner. German language guide to Indonesian language grammar. .

Barth. Verlag. Leipzig.. 1960.. Black and white photographic illustrations, 64pp, bibliography, wrappers chipped with loss at edges and along spine, largely unopened. Text in German. .